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DATOS IDENTIFICATIVOS 2011_12
Asignatura LIT. POSCOLONIALES EN LENGUA INGLESA Código 00408143
Enseñanza
LIC. EN FILOLOGIA INGLESA
Descriptores Cr.totales Tipo Curso Semestre
9 Obligatoria Quinto Anual
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Prerrequisitos
Departamento FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Responsable
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ , MARTA SOFÍA
Correo-e mslopr@unileon.es
mcperd@unileon.es
Profesores/as
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ , MARTA SOFÍA
PÉREZ DÍEZ , MARÍA DEL CARMEN
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Descripción general "The aim of this subject is to offer the students a panoramic survey of the so-called ""non-European Literatures in English"" in the twentieth century, as well as Black British literature. We will read texts from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, Britain, New Zealand and South Pacific. The focus of the subject will be on certain cross-cultural themes and literary strategies which allow us to define these varied literatures as post-colonial, but always paying attention to the specific particular geographical and historical circumstances that underlie the cultural production on each specific area. " "
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"The aim of this subject is to offer the students a panoramic survey of the so-called ""non-European Literatures in English"" in the twentieth century, as well as Black British literature. We will read texts from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, Britain, New Zealand and South Pacific. The focus of the subject will be on certain cross-cultural themes and literary strategies which allow us to define these varied literatures as post-colonial, but always paying attention to the specific particular geographical and historical circumstances that underlie the cultural production on each specific area. " "

Metodologías
Theoretical lessons and practical discussion of literary and filmic texts. "

Contenidos
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Africa: socio-historical overview. Literatures in English in the African continent. Great literary areas. Main authors. Film: Out of Africa, by Sydney Pollack. Texts: "Abiku", by J. P. Clark; Wole Soyinka's "A Telephone Conversation". Fragments from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. Efua Sutherland's "New Life in Kierefaso". Novel: Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
The Anglophone Caribbean: socio-historical overview. Main authors. Texts: M. A. Wolcott's "The Undertone; H. S. Bunbury's "The Spell of the Tropics"; Louise Bennet's "Colonization in Reverse"; Grace Nichols's "One Continent/To Another"; Olive Senior's "The Two Grandmothers".
The Indian subcontinent: socio-historical overview. Literature in English in the Indian Subcontinent. Main authors. Texts: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"; Shivani's "Dadi"; Rohinton Mistry's "The Collectors".
Canada: socio-historical overview. Canadian Literature. Main authors. Film: The English Patient, by Anthony Minghella. Texts: Robert Kroetsch's "Seed Catalogue"; Margaret Atwood's "Disembarking at Quebec" and "First Neighbours"; short stories from Good Bones; Rudy Wiebe's "Where?s the Voice Coming From?". Novel: Michael Ondaatjee's The English Patient.
The South Pacific: socio-historical overview. Literature in Australia and New Zealand. Main authors. Film: An Angel at my Table, by Jane Campion. Texts: Ada Cambridge's "Practicing the Anthem"; Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"; Jennifer Strauss's "Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram"; Henry Lawson's "The Drover's Wife"; Keri Hulme's "Hooks and Feelers". Sally Morgan's My Place. Film: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Post-colonial Britain. Novel: White Theeth. Film: Anita and Me. Linton Kwwesi Johnson and dub poetry.Film: Horace Ove's "A Dream to Change the World".

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A final exam or two written essays of about 5ooo words each. The combination of theoretical perspectives with a close reading of the texts proposed will be the main criterion in the correction of the essays or exam. Participation in class discussion will account for 20% of the final mark.


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Básica
"Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back. Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. London: Routledge. Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (1995) The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge. Childs and Williams (1997) An Introduction to Post-colonial Theory. London: Prentice Hall. Loomba (1998) Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge. McLeod (2000) Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press. " "
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